unpicturesque
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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He was born in unpicturesque Paisley, and brought up on its most notorious housing estate, Ferguslie Park – "Feegie" or "the Jungle".
From The Guardian • Aug. 17, 2011
"My group�just some unpicturesque businessmen who want to make money�has put up $500,000 to make it go."
From Time Magazine Archive
On those occasions when the author is laughing at the South, she is casual, succinct and totally unpicturesque.
From Time Magazine Archive
The audience gulped down the plot as conventional but reliable stuff, watched with waning interest while spinning, swerving, dodging planes grew into confused monotony against a background of unpicturesque ether.
From Time Magazine Archive
A couple of men lounged near him smoking, and in front of them a double row of unpicturesque frame-houses straggled beside the trail that led straight as the crow flies into a waste of prairie.
From A Prairie Courtship by Bindloss, Harold
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